Re: DB Restore

On 9/8/06, Bergemann, Eric <ebergemann@parappsys.com> wrote:
> This is what is returned to the browser on directories that contain nothing:
>
> <D:error>
> <C:error/>
> <m:human-readable errcode="160014">
> Reference to non-existent node '1.e.r130322/2966' in filesystem
> 'C:\SVNRepo\InstallFiles/db'
> </m:human-readable>
> </D:error>
>
> Best Regards,
>
> -Eric Bergemann
> Software Engineer
> Paragon Application Systems, Inc.
> (919) 567-9890
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ryan Schmidt [SMTP:subversion-2006c@ryandesign.com]
> > Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 10:46 AM
> > To: Bergemann, Eric
> > Cc: users@subversion.tigris.org
> > Subject: Re: DB Restore
> >
> >
> > On Sep 8, 2006, at 16:27, Bergemann, Eric wrote:
> >
> > > Earlier this week the drive to our Subversion server went bad. We
> > > were able to get a copy of the database to restore and I was able
> > > to get
> > > Subversion and Apache set up the way it was originally. However,
> > > now that it
> > > is back up it seems like all of the "cheap copies" of all of the
> > > files are
> > > missing or that random folders in the database have no files. Is
> > > there any
> > > possibility that it is a configuration issue or am I going to have to
> > > restore each file in each branch manually as opposed to restoring the
> > > database?
> >
> > Restoring from backup should restore everything 100% the way it was
> > when the backup was made, so something sounds wrong here. How was the
> > repository backup originally made? svnadmin hotcopy? svnadmin dump?
> > something else? How was it restored?
> >
> >
>
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When you say copy, you mean hot-copy right? Because you should always
use the hotcopy command (as it says in da book
(http://svnbook.red-bean.com/). If you just did a filesystem copy,
then you may have just learned the hard way of what NOT to do.